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Case Reports
. 2011:155:A1718.

[A dog's groomer with a painful hand]

[Article in Dutch]
Sofie A F Fransen  1 , Pascal Hanneman
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  • PMID: 21382203
Case Reports

[A dog's groomer with a painful hand]

[Article in Dutch]
Sofie A F Fransen et al. Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. 2011.

Abstract

A dog's groomer suffered from an abscess on the palmar side of his right hand which was caused by the migration of cut dog hairs into the epidermis, diagnosed as an occupational interdigital sinus pilonidalis. The patient was treated by surgical excision of the abscess.

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